The world, not painted in thousands of colors and shades, would be very dull. Minecraft can't complain about the lack of colors. Perhaps this explains the scarcity of items and blocks that can be painted using dyes. But they are there and we need to use them. Here are some examples of items that can be dyed:
- Armor (leather)
- wolf collar
- Asterisk (for fireworks)
Wool dyeing
Minecraft has 13 natural and 9 mixed dyes. You will read more about colors below, and now more about the use of colorants. The main use of "pigments" is in the coloring of wool. If the wolf collar or saddle is not decorated, you will not be very cold or hot from this. But multi-colored wool can be useful to you in a huge number of cases. It's hard to imagine design projects in Minecraft without taking advantage of the possibilities offered by dyes.
To dye wool, and other items from the list, it, like the dye, is placed in the crafting grid. The order of the elements is not important. However, only white wool can be dyed in Minecraft (interestingly, even white). In one approach, you can color only one block, and this is a negative point of this method. It makes more sense to do otherwise.
Wool can be obtained not only by crafting, but also by shearing sheep. Not only do sheep give it at a time 2-3 times more than craft, but the dye is spent much more rationally. The fact is that sheep after shearing do not remain bald forever. Their coat grows back. Moreover, the color in which you once painted the animal. Do you understand what the profit is? By spending one unit of dye in Minecraft, you can get an almost unlimited amount of wool.
But that is not all. By painting the future mother and father, the sheep and the ram, in different colors, you will get a lamb of the color that you would get if you mixed the parental colors separately. Needless to say, the profit is fabulous. Here it would be useful to note that in natural conditions, Minecraft can be found, in addition to white sheep, also gray, black, pink and brown. This is useful to know so as not to waste the dye once again. Well, to paint this useful animal, you need to take a dye in your hand, and right-click on the sheep. Just get close to her so as not to spray the substance.
Painting other items
Leather armor in Minecraft can be colored with v. 12w34a. For dyeing, you should randomly place one unit of armor and one or more dyes in the grid. There are several points here:
- The number of colors is much more than the base ones, since already painted armor can be painted. That is, the result always turns out to be some kind of average.
- The ability to use many dyes at once allows you to quickly get the desired result.
- Colored armor in Minecraft can be washed in a cauldron of water.
It is very useful to use dyes when crafting fireworks. In this way, you can make very bright and colorful fireworks. And baked clay is a great (durable and beautiful) alternative to wool. Like wool, it allows you to achieve a wide variety of design goals. True, the sheep product, as has been shown and proven, is more profitable to use, since it is easier to make.
Types of dyes
Well, now more about the "pigments" themselves. Colors in Minecraft are primary, secondary, and tertiary. Here are the primary dyes (there are thirteen of them), as well as the ingredients from which they can be made or mined.
The list of things that can be dyed in Minecraft is huge: wool, baked clay, collars, saddles, glass, leather armor, firework stars. Dye can also be used on a sheep to get several colored blocks of wool after shearing.
Green Dye Craft
Green dye can be made from a cactus. This plant grows only on sand, and the player can find it in deserts. You can also grow them yourself if you create a cactus farm.
To do this, you need to pour sand and plant one cactus block on it. Further, after the cut of the grown plant, new blocks will appear. The process can be automated using a piston - it will knock down cacti without the participation of the player.
The maximum height of the cactus is 3 blocks, but they can be stacked on top of each other on their own. But if any block (including the cactus) is adjacent to the side face, then the plant cannot be placed in the selected place. But they can be placed diagonally. When collecting a cactus, you should be careful, as it causes damage on contact.
It is impossible to craft the main ingredient for creation. But if you do not want to look for cacti or grow them, you can use the command:
Once the cactus is harvested, it must be fired in a kiln to produce a green dye ready for use.
Creating other colors
From the green dye, paint of other shades is obtained. You can get a lighter green shade, the so-called lime, if you combine ready-made green paint and bone meal. The bone can be obtained by killing the skeleton. After that, in the inventory it can be turned into flour.
To create a lime shade, you need a workbench. In its grid, you need to place the dye and bone meal in the second row on the sides, leaving the central slot empty.
Also, based on cactus dye, you can get a turquoise color. For this you need lapis lazuli. This stone can be found by mining ore. It does not need to be smelted, to get lapis lazuli you need to take a stone, iron or diamond pickaxe and hit the ore.
Next, you need to arrange the ingredients in the grid, in the following order: leave the first and last row empty, and first place lapis lazuli in the middle row, leave the next slot empty, and place cactus dye in the last slot. The result is two turquoise colors.
How to use
Not all things in the game can be painted. The most common item for dyeing is wool. You can paint as blocks separately, or you can first paint the sheep, and only after that shear it. The result will be several blocks of green (or other color) wool using one dye. In addition, after shearing, the sheep will grow new wool and it will also be green. And if you breed sheep, then at the birth of a new one, the color of the wool is inherited.
Also in the game you can paint the armor. But only made of leather, armor made of other material cannot be dyed. For painting, you need to put one of the armor elements and a dye in the grid. They can be placed in any order. For painting, you can use several colors at the same time, and if the result does not suit you, then the color can be washed off by using it on the boiler.
If players have a tamed wolf, they will be able to dye its collar (they are orange by default). They are painted similarly to armor.
It can be used to decorate a home by painting fired clay or glass. To do this, in the workbench, you need to put one dye in the center, and fill all other slots with blocks of clay or glass. This paint is enough for eight blocks.
The dye and its derivatives can be used to create an asterisk. It is used to launch fireworks. At the same time, the creation of an asterisk takes place in two stages: first, a base is created, from dye and gunpowder, in the second stage, the asterisk is again combined with paint, but of a different color. This will create a very beautiful effect. At first, the fireworks sparks will be the same color, and then it will change. You can create the most incredible combinations.
In addition to green, there are several more natural dyes and their derivatives in Minecraft. Some of them need to be crafted, while others can be found ready-made. For example, black drops from killed octopuses, brown can be found in chests, but red will have to be crafted from roses, tulips and poppies.
Type- dye
Where to look- do it yourself
Foldability– yes (64)
Description and characteristics:
We paint in green leggings
By the way, about wool: in minecraft, green dye can be used to dye wool in a very tricky way.
We take two sheep, take them to the corral (before that, treat each mob separately with wheat, and happy with your attention, the mob will gladly follow you).
Now, we pick up a green dye in minecraft, and press RMB (right-click). And we will get two charming mobs of a green tint. When cutting wool with scissors, you not only have the opportunity to get 2 blocks instead of one when using one dye, but also, after a certain time, the wool will grow back, and you can again get a dyed wool block.
Also, by treating both sheep with wheat, you can get a charming green lamb, thus, you will speed up the production of green wool.
Honey in green leggings, boots and a helmet
So, you know how to make a green dye in minecraft, so go ahead - play and eat! And we will always help with advice!
Type- dye
Where to look– mine in a mine, in the desert, under water, do it yourself
Foldability– yes (64)
Description and characteristics:
Probably, you often noticed that players use wool of unusual colors, and are also sometimes dressed in rather bright leather armor: pink, purple or even blue? Of course they did! And you are probably wondering how you can achieve the same result? And here everything is simple - you just need to learn how to make a dye in minecraft.
In this case, you should turn directly to the gifts of nature: put all the important things at home and run into the world of minecraft for flowers! To get dyes, you need to put the flowers in the left cell of the workbench, and then on the right we will get the necessary resources.
So, what will need to be collected - roses, dandelions - this is in the standard biome. But in the desert, look for cacti, since we will make green dyes in minecraft with them.
To get a green dye, you will literally need to bake cacti in the oven, then as a result you will get the source for the green color.
Also, when it starts to get dark, we pick up a sword. And even better - a bow, and fearlessly go to fight the skeletons. As a drop, bones necessarily fall from them, from which you can get bone meal, which is used not only as a plant growth accelerator, but also as a white dye.
So, how to make dye in minecraft black? In this case, you need to go straight to the water, quite interesting mobs live there - squids, from which the ink bag falls, which we need.
What is interesting: it is not at all necessary to kill an octopus, that is, a squid, you can swim up to it from below and hit from there, then you can drop from 1 to 3 bags as a drop.
How is a blue tint dye made in minecraft? I think most attentive players have already guessed: it can be stuffed with a pickaxe in the mine, and this is lapis lazuli.
So, let's watch a very useful minecraft video together: how to make dyes with your own hands:
As you can see, in such a matter as making dyes in minecraft, there is nothing complicated.
True, let's clarify: now we have considered the primary, that is, the primary colors, but to get the secondary ones, you just need to combine the two sources.
Let's look at the table, how you can get it: 
And here are the tertiary shades for you:
So, we figured out how to make a dye in minecraft, now let's talk about some ways to use it.
In the latest versions of the game, it is possible to dye a sheep: you simply point at the mob and right-click (right-click). Why do it? We explain: for one sheep you will spend 1 dye, but already when shearing with scissors you can get as many as two blocks of dyed wool. That is, we give one, and we receive two. Profitable? Ato how! Yes, and keep in mind that the sheep will grow back after a while, so you will not have a shortage of dyed wool over time!
Sweet in painted armor
In addition, if you dye another sheep, say, blue, and then "marry" them, you will get a cute purple lamb.
In addition, dyes can be used to tint baked clay, as well as glass, which will give you the opportunity to create an extraordinary home that no one else will have! About the fact that armor painting is possible, of course, it’s not worth talking about!
So, in this way, knowing how to make a dye in minecraft is very useful, as you have seen!
